The phrase "a reflection of failure" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that indicates or symbolizes a lack of success or achievement in a particular context.
Example: "The project's poor results were a reflection of failure in our planning and execution."
Alternatives: "an indication of failure" or "a sign of failure."
The failing newspapers are a reflection of our failure to keep my generation interested in issues of national and international importance.
The Govan defeat, he wrote, was "a reflection of our failure to discuss constitutional questions, which are at the core of the devolution argument".
Analysts say the demonstrations are a reflection of the failure of the parliamentary system to repair the fractures in Thai society since the administration of Thaksin Shinawatra, the former prime minister removed in the 2006 military coup.
So it is up to the most integrated parts of it to show leadership.That the ECB should take such a central role is in many ways a reflection of the failure of the euro-zone's political leaders to bring the debt crisis under control in more than two years of emergency summits and bail-outs.
That Mr Museveni is even willing to try is a reflection of the failure of the media, human rights groups, and diplomats to push back against the dubious landslide victories credited this year to Prime Minister Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia, as well as to Mr Kagame.Negotiations with oil companies appear to have been tough and in Uganda's national interest.
"The far more important question is why inflation is anywhere near 0% in the first place: in our view, the inconvenient truth for policymakers is that, in large part, that is a reflection of the failure of policy, both fiscal and monetary".
That realization was surprising, a reflection of my failure to connect what I know about other places around the world where climate, acidification, and consequential other forces have brought other species to crisis.
The failings of the set point and settling point models are therefore primarily a reflection of their failure to accommodate the gene-by-environment nature of the problem.
There are more jobs available than perhaps at any other point in Ryan's tenure — a reflection of the failures of last season, and of the prospects afforded by a new regime.
